Top 5 Posts on Twitter IPO

The long-awaited day has come. Twitter, the 200 million user microblogging service, has filed for its initial public offering. Fittingly, the only public acknowledgement came in the form of a simple tweet. "We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO," the company said in a tweet on Thursday.

Groupon founder, and former CEO, Andrew Mason had an interesting reaction to Twitter's confidential IPO. Confidential S1s? But what could be wrong with releasing 100s of pages of new financial and strategic co. info to the Internet while gagged?

Charlene Li Twitter tweeted yesterday that it has filed a confidential S-1, with the appropriate disclaimer. Here are a few reasons why this filing and IPO warrant close scrutiny. Twitter is the last of the Big Four to go public.

As you likely know, Twitter recently filed for its initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities Exchange Commission, a major step in the process of becoming a publicly traded company. For many of its investors, this is the long-awaited payoff of billions of dollars invested in the company.

A A We don't know much about Twitter's planned IPO, thanks to the company's decision to file its papers with the SEC confidentially. But we do know is that the timing is perfect. The fall TV season is just about to begin.